Senior Engineer - Inventory Team - Xero

Job Title: Senior Engineer - Inventory Team
Job Location: San Mateo, US
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/xero/f959143d-7cb9-445e-a998-6c5e673d34aa
Job Description: Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

This role may be a remote role in the US, and someone preferably based in the San Francisco / Bay Area, Los Angeles, or Denver areas. Senior Engineer must be able to work PT hours.
What You'll Do
Create software - Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, produce robust high quality and scalable software. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews.
Test software - Design and automate testing activities that eﬀectively reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and acceptance criteria. Collaborate with the team and understand their own responsibility for quality.
Resolve issues - Triage and solve development and production issues, and be able to quickly track down the root cause.
Communicate the impact of the problem to stakeholders in terms of business value, helping to set a priority for the resolution. Actively participate in incident responses.
Engineering standards & frameworks- Maintain knowledge of Xero’s current and emerging engineering standards and practices. Develop and deploy software that meets Xero's standards.
Continuous improvement- Maintain knowledge of current and emerging development technologies and methodologies. Develop expertise in one or more programming languages and ecosystem specific technologies.
Deliver infrastructure in a production environment- Maintain and monitor delivery processes. Ensure all software is running as expected and proactively work to prevent customer facing problems.
Modern software and delivery practices- Practice agile software development. Occasionally facilitate agile ceremonies. Proactively work to improve team processes.
Recruitment - Participate in interviews and recruitment processes.
How You'll Do It
Live Xero’s vision and values- Keep Xero’s vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and actions. Communicate and help others understand the importance of the vision and values. Translate the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviors.
Communication skills - Communicate with the wider team appropriately, focusing on timeliness and good quality conversations.
Build relationships - Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and team.
Growth mindset - Understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work.
Innovation and delivery- Develop a track record of innovating and delivering technology in a team and solving customer’s problems through software.
Coaching and mentorship - Mentor people under guidance of Senior Engineer & People Lead.
Work collaboratively - Work with others to achieve a good outcome using a working style that suits the problem at hand.
Self-learning - Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies relevant to Xero’s engineering environment.
What You'll Bring With You
High level of experience in a range of languages and tools (C#, .net, React, Typescript, Redux, etc.); Full Stack Engineer is ideal.
Proven ability to contribute to internal ecosystems, build SDKs and libraries to enable other teams to integrate with their products.
Able to debug across the entire Xero technology stack to unblock the team.
Able to make major code design decisions for individual products.
Highly proficient in the architecture and implementation of distributed systems. Ability to refactor complex, monolithic systems into scalable, resilient components.
Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
Strong advocate and teacher of TDD and automated tooling to safely and repeatedly release code.
Ability to review and coordinate team processes to improve quality and strengthen feedback loops.

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